Mush-package.



- No. 834,474. PATENTED OCT. 30.. 1906-.

0. w. JACKSON. MUSH PACKAGE.

APPLICATION TILED 0OT.17.'1904,

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UNITEDSTATES CYRUS w. J oKsoN,v or INDIANAPOLIS, INDIAItIA, ASSIGNQR orONE- HALF TO JOSEPH A. MINTURN, OF INDIANAPOLIS,"INDIANA.

MUSH-PACKAG E.

nated by order of the Commissioner of Patents.

This invention relates to the-manner in I which the mush product of theprocess above to the customer.

referred to is I re ared in" suitable wrapped packages or ro ls orcommercial handling. Mush has been sold in bulk in open pans like theordinary bre d-pans and was s iced off and removed by tiie retailer inquantities desired by the purchaser. This was disagreeable to thedealer, because of the wet and sticky nature of the article which he hadto handle in taking it out of the pan and wrapping it, and thisoperation was unpalatable Moreover, the large open area of the panfurnished a oatchall for impurities that would fall therein andrenderthe food unwholesome and uninviting to a fastidious taste, and .it alsoexposed a large area of the goods to the atmosphere, causing theformation of a thick leathery skin by the drying and other atmosphericaction, which was ruinous to the mush as a food and soon made itunmerchantable.

i This invention is a new article ofmanufacture which has beendemonstrated to be suitable for commercial purposes and which has metwith an extended sale wherever it has been offered to the public.- Themush molded in molds for which I have made application for patent in clindrical rolls of ap-' proximately three inc es in diameter and eightinches long and weighing two pounds, the retail value of which is fivecents, is of convenient size and shape for handling in a commercial way,and it is kept from drying out and the formation of a skin on the sidesis prevented by wrapping the roll first in a waxed or paraflin-coatedpaper lmpervious Original application filed December 23, 1903, SerialNo. 185,

' Serial No. 228,877.

'fold of the latter at the 1 within the wrap e PatentediObtBO, 1906.283. Divided and this application filed oet'eberiv, 1904.

this I reinforce and keep clean by wrapping the wa -covered roll inwrapper of Manila or other strong paper on'which the label anddirections for using may be impressed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 represents the Manila wrapper, the

wax sheet laid thereon, and the mush-roll laid upon the wax sheet. big.2 represents the mush roll wrapped in thewax sheet with the sheetpartially .turned in over the end of the roll; and Fig. 3 shows the rollof mush with both wax and Manila wrappers and the end of the roll onlypartially completed to illustrate the manner of making sald end fold.the two wrappers broken away in part to show both and also to show theroll of mush pings. Arepresents the cylindrical roll of mush which ispreferably made in accordance with the formula set out in myabove-mentioned application, of which this is a division, and which isconse elastic nature t an mush as ordinarily made, but is still largelywater, being from four to five parts water to one of cereal, andconsequently of a moist nature and susceptible to deterioration byexposure to the direct action of the air.

B is the first or inside covering of wax paper. For urposes ofeconomyand also to facilitate the wrapping and removal of this This view showsuently of a firmer and more to moisture and notdissolvable therein, and

covering I prefer to make the sheet only but little wider than thelength of the roll of mush, so that the edges 6 will be turned only alittle way over the end of the roll to stiifen the package at thecorners and protect the outside wrapper .there more effectuallyonaccount of the fact that those edges will be subject naturally to thegreatest wearing strain.

C is the Manila outside wrapper and is wide enough to provide end foldsc, that will overlap each other'across the end of the roll from oppositesides of the roll, and because of the extra protection which thesenumerous layers of the wrapper provide at the ends of the roll thelatter is amply protected without the wax-paperinner cover. Thestiffness of the wrapper is am le to cause the folds to lie close enoughto t e roll without being fastened, to-protectthe roll againstmutilation by ordinary handling, but not to exclude the air. 1

Having thus fully described my invention, 5 what I claim asnew, andWishto secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture,- a mushroll package, the principalingredients of the roll being ground cereal and Water cooked totogether, a wax paper covering the sides of the rolland folded partlyover the ends of the roll to stiffen the package at its corners butnot-covering the major area of the ends,

1 andaan outer: wrapper of=str0ng-paper covering the sides of thewax-paper-covered roll I 5 and folded in several layers across the endsof the roll completely covering said ends in a loose manner to admitair.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand'and seal, atIndianapolis, Indiana, this 20 3d day of October, A. D. 1904*.

CYRUS W. JACKSON.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH A. MINTURN, JOHN B. SHERWOOD,

